Expertise

Biography

Dr. Theodore Abraham is associate chief of cardiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, specializing in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the leading cause of sudden death among young athletes. As the director of the Johns Hopkins Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center of Excellence and the Athletic Heart Clinic, Dr. Abraham founded Heart Hype, a program that screens local high-school athletes for potentially serious heart issues. He holds several patents for image-guided catheters and ultrasound-related devices, and is director of the Johns Hopkins Echocardiography Programs.

Dr. Abraham attended medical school in Bombay, India. He completed his internship and residency at Wake Forest University in North Carolina and pursued fellowships in echocardiography research at Wake Forest, clinical cardiology at the University of Texas, Southwestern, and in echocardiography and muscle physiology at the Mayo Clinic, where he was a Mayo Scholar. Dr. Abraham joined Johns Hopkins University in 2004. He is the author of nearly 150 publications including over 100 peer-reviewed articles as well as book chapters and editorials, and serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging and Cardiology Journal.